The most popular building material today is concrete. Concrete is used for buildings, industrial structures, bridges, railroad sleepers, roads, dams and more. Along with the development of concrete technology is increasingly developing and innovative so as to achieve better characteristics, cheaper prices and environmentally friendly. In the early days of the development of concrete it is explained to us about the origin from ancient times to civilization to the present century of its development. In current developments, concrete already has a very high compressive strength up to 200-800 MPa, this is also called Ultra Hight Concrete (UHC). It is developed by the Reactive Powder concrete (RPC) method. Where in the research conducted, the manufacture of reactive material, namely Reactive Powder concrete (RPC) was given with a compressive strength of up to 52 MPa. The components of the RPC mixture consist of cement, fine aggregate, silica fume, superplasticizer and water. To produce a compressive strength of 52 MPa, the composition of the mixture used previous research. Detailed RPC concrete mix proportions are given in this study. Preparation and testing of materials are made in the laboratory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Untan. The results that will be obtained are the physical and mechanical properties of RPC Concrete. As previously explained, the manufacture of RPC concrete requires basic ingredients that include cement, fine aggregate, silica fume, superplasticizer and water mixed together. Of course, with basic ingredients with good and correct composition, the physical and mechanical properties of RPC concrete will reach the planned quality. Cement sold in the market today has PPC and PCC types. Therefore, the cement which is a binder of powder materials into a solid one plays a very important role in the formation of the best physical and mechanical properties of RPC concrete. With cement as a binding material, it is certain that the strength of RPC concrete is determined by the binding capacity of the type of cement to be used, thus RPC concrete will be obtained according to the planned quality of the plan. From the cement brands on the Indonesian market consisting of PPC and PCC cement types, it can be concluded that one of the cements using the PCC type cement brand has better physical and mechanical properties than the PPC type cement brand. And all brands of cement with PCC type produce compressive strength > 52 MPa. So, in the manufacture of RPC concrete it is recommended to use a cement brand with PCC type.
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